Examples of 'roman à clef' in a sentence
Meaning of "roman à clef"
Roman à clef: A literary technique where a novel or story is based on real events and characters, but presented in a fictionalized or disguised manner to provide a veil of secrecy or anonymity for the subjects being portrayed
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- A piece of fiction, especially a novel, describing real-life people or events.
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roman à clef
I told her of the risks in a roman à clef.
A roman à clef inevitably risks offending or causing pain.
It is the nomenclature complement of the roman à clef.
The roman à clef type.
Maybe some sort of roman à clef.
Roman à clef.
The novel is purported to be a roman à clef.
It is a roman à clef.
At first it appears to be a sort of roman à clef.
To write a roman à clef about gentle people who have received you as their guest.
Write a thinly veiled roman à clef.
It was a very loose roman à clef about Paula Block and her friends.
The novel is what you would call a roman à clef.
Although fictional, it is a roman à clef based on true stories.
Some readers claim that the novel is a roman à clef.
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Write a thinly veiled roman à clef set in a whale-themed B and B.
The custom has been to dismiss the novel as a roman à clef.
Betrayal a roman à clef.
Could be the draft of a spy novel . Maybe some sort of roman à clef.
This roman à clef was published in 1954 and immediately found high praise.
The work is a roman à clef.
Bian Xiaoxuan and Liu Kairong ( 刘开荣 / 劉開榮 ) believe the work is a roman à clef.
It is not, however, a roman à clef.
The book is a roman à clef about Bill Clinton 's first presidential campaign in 1992.
Rocket to the Morgue is something of a roman à clef.
Write a thinly-veiled roman à clef set in a whale-themed B&B.
Johnson 's text is an example of a roman à clef.
Om bare from 2001 is considered her most important novel, and a roman à clef.
The book invites interpretation, then, as a roman à clef.
So you have the circumspection, or sly smile, of the roman à clef.
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Examples of using Clef
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This is the clef that you need
I told her of the risks in a roman à clef
Each clef is made up of line and spaces
